Jessica Leigh Hester is a senior associate editor at CityLab, covering environment and culture. Her work also appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the New York Times, Modern Farmer, the Village Voice, Slate, the BBC, NPR, and other outlets.
In Miami-Dade County, researchers are working to save sites at risk of being destroyed by rising ocean waters.
The Zero Waste Guidelines are aimed at helping the city reach its goal of sending no garbage to landfills by 2030.